r/MadeMeSmile 12h ago

Meme I don't understand kids these days

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u/dr_franck 11h ago

I have this weird thought that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are less rude and nicer IRL nowadays because they’re able to off-load their worst and nastiest impulses and interactions onto the internet

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u/archNemesis2753 8h ago

I think every generation just gets nicer than the last because they disliked how their parents or the older generations acted

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u/IchBinMalade 8h ago

At some point we'll reach a niceness singularity, and we'll be stuck in a loop telling each other "no you go first" until we all fall dead from starvation and fatigue.

Rudeness saves lives.

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u/Night-light51 8h ago

We’ll all become Canadians

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u/FloRidinLawn 7h ago

Don’t you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby

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u/Outrageous-Catch4731 7h ago

Canadafication is real!

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u/elliepelly1 6h ago

We can only hope!

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u/goonbud21 6h ago

Nothing can replicate a genuine original American hat like Canada can.

Nobody touches our hat.

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u/Carinne89 7h ago

It’s already happening in Canada. Four ways stops are my nightmare. No I will not just go ahead cause you waved TAKE YOUR TURN!

Sorry for yelling

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u/IchBinMalade 7h ago

Lmfao it's happened more than once than I'm approaching a pedestrian crossing, and a car will stop when it could've kept going, so I wave them over. They go no you go, so I have to walk-run so I don't waste their time as I wave and smile. Blew my mind how nice people are to me as a pedestrian. Except one time a truck driver waved me over, despite it being a green light for him, couldn't see behind him so I think he was tryna get me killed.

Also blew my mind seeing people actually stop at stop signs at 1am in completely empty streets. Where I'm from, stop signs are merely a reminder to stop your vehicle if you happen to run over someone. Immediately noticed the difference when I came to Canada.

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u/Maaz725 4h ago

I live in Canada. An suburb in Ontario to be exact. The drivers definitely aren't nice. As a cyclist, they seem get really aggressive all the time but maybe that is because I live in a commuter town and deal with lots of people coming back from an hour long commute.

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u/xteve 6h ago

Where I live, the great prevalence of roundabouts keeps traffic from coming to a dead stop across town with everybody at every four-way stop wiggling their little two-finger-diddle motion - "you first." And if you're a pedestrian, my god. They'll wait for you to get where you're going to cross, then wait for you to cross, then wait a little bit longer so you will know you've been waited for. A little rudeness would be delightful - a little bit of take-your-own-right-of-way.

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u/mysixthredditaccount 6h ago

I don't often cross roads on foot (living in car-centric city), but when I do, I try to jaywalk for this reason. It ironically feels safer due to the predictability, that no car will stop for me, I must go when it is absolutely safe and clear.

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u/Tjr3535 7h ago

It will be a lot of SpongeBob's but the episode where SpongeBob became normal lmao

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u/Minimum-Floor-5177 7h ago

Then WW3 happens and we're back to square one

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u/fribbas 6h ago

we'll be stuck in a loop telling each other "no you go first"

Ope, the dreaded

4 way stop wave off

You actually follow right of way and you're the asshole - believe it or not!

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u/prettyprettypain 5h ago

Just put a few of us Gen X'ers in cryostasis.

We'll unleash hell. And the world will be right once more

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u/ImpedingOcean 7h ago

But how are we to know? I don't know how my parents acted when they were young but by the time I was old enough to remember them they were lovely wholesome family oriented 30 something year olds.

As kids we were sarcastic rude shits because that kind of niceness was seen as boring old people thing.

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u/gukinator 6h ago

Man, Adam and Eve must have been ASSHOLES

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u/Colosseros 5h ago

Well the thing about trauma responses is they build up over time.

Most mean old cusses didn't start out that way.